Labor: A Sort of Ending

It was a silly strike to begin with, and it
came to a silly ending. Walter Reuther had insisted that all local work
issuessome 17,000 of themwould have to be settled before his United
Auto Workers could reach a national agreement with General Motors. On
the tenth day of the strike and with almost 300,000 men out of work, he
changed his mind, decided that a national settlement would help to iron
out local differences. After that, it took only eleven hours of
negotiation to reach a national pact. That did not immediately...